Snowflake is investing significant resources to promote its platform as the optimal environment for running artificial intelligence applications.

Benefits of the approach

The company argues that bringing AI directly to where the data resides offers advantages in terms of performance, security, and cost, compared to the alternative of moving data to external AI platforms. This approach reduces latency, simplifies data management, and improves governance.

For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs to consider carefully. AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these aspects.